Ugatha All Along. The end of the Witches Road.

[@alrives]

I watched because it looked like it might not be a total waste. I was obviously wrong and your take was spot on!

[@mjbull5156]

"Not hire morons? Bur morons are so cheap!"

[@52moviesayear]

My wife started watching Agatha All she got 3 episodes in and never went back. Marketing reached the target audience the show failed to keep her interested.

[@brick6347]

My wife, who knows nothing about Marvel etc (much to our son's frustration) saw it and thought 'ok, why not, it's Halloween'. She didn't last 30 minutes.

[@53kenner]

Let's not defame The Ghost and Mrs. Muir!

[@chipcook5346]

Movie or series.

[@planexshifter]

I prefer The Ghost And Mr. Chicken

[@leemonsampson1844]

I have that novel. Very touching❤❤❤❤❤, the movie isn't bad either 😊😊😊

[@Fauxkerykes]

You really deserve way more views. Your analysis and inside opinions are better than the actual shows you look at. Oh and "Billy and His Bitches" made laugh so hard.

[@CallMeChato]

Thank you.

[@ksfella]

Billy and his Bitches got me too! I never laughed so hard😹😹

[@swanvictor887]

this might give you a grin: in the UK, there was a hugely popular Cop Show, set in Glasgow, called 'Taggart' (the title character being the lead detective, played by the enigmatic Mark McManus). The show began in 1983 and ran for over twenty-seven years, finally ending in 2010, still called Taggart....even though Mark MacManus died in 1994 and was never replaced in the show!

[@CallMeChato]

Once the other characters are established, sure. It’s like life.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

Quick reminder that Chato argues for green lighting the first couple seasons. As he himself pointed out several times, once a series hits season 5, all gloves are off and nothing is off the table anymore.

[@robinhood9128]

Still waiting for Marvel to do a multiverse series based on Aunt May.

[@ganykaliya7811]

Thank you for watching this crap so we don't have to.

[@theevermind]

_Ahsoka_ - Gay space witches (fails) _Acolyte_ - Gay space witches (fails) _Agatha All Along_ - Gay earth witches (fails) _Andor_ - no witches, but unnecessary gay plot line (fails) The pattern is clear and obvious. Disney needs to stop making shows that start with "A."

[@brandonm4550]

Would agree with everything but Andor that’s by far the best thing they’ve made

[@tyraelpl]

She-hulk. Still a fail xD

[@RaymondSwanson-u9y]

@@tyraelpl A gay lawyer. AKA Witch

[@ereini0n]

Andor is a decent show, and there's nothing unnecessary about the gay plot line.

[@Draycoe]

Andor is fantastic, but otherwise I agree.

[@AL-ws5yi]

Didn’t watch it. Didn’t care. Let it all waste away.

[@doberski6855]

Yeah, same here. Perfect comment!

[@wolveric0]

same

[@paulheitkemper1559]

Same

[@ericmendenhall2867]

How dare you say that about Marvels gayest show! Stunning and brave!

[@DrCruel]

@@ericmendenhall2867 About who?

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Remember, ratings don’t matter to them for these shows, the Blackrock/Vanguard money isn’t there to make a profit, it’s there to deliver a message. It’s marketing for that, it’s cost of business, nothing more.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

Exactly. In 30 years, folks will shrug and say, "That's just the way it's always been," and it will be money well spent in their opinions. Almost makes you wish for an apocalypse.

[@davidfinch7407]

I hope you are wrong. But even if you are right, it doesn't mean that we are slowly going to accept these woke sh*tshows. They are so bad, they invite mockery and eventually, backlash. When Ironheart comes out, it won't do much for super hero movies, but it will be comedy gold for many internet content providers.

[@planexshifter]

When you have virtually endless $$$$$ You can afford to lose a few billions here and there to push your agenda

[@Mereologist]

That's where you're wrong. Blackrock and Vanguard aren't magickal sources of money to do everything. They're investment companies. When people can't invest with them and get returns, they'll be powerless.

[@johntabler349]

A point that needs more attention drawn to it

[@freemanconnell8134]

Oh yeah we need the Rockford Files with Angel as the main character 😂😂😂

[@SPR-bk3tf]

What a surprise, it sucked all along. Who could have guessed?

[@darthlaurel]

I have to admit, she totally nailed the whole hideous and ghastly actress trope.

[@janibeg3247]

The Ghost and Mrs Muir was a great movie. If Disney can find someone as beautiful and talented as Gene Tierney, i will gladly watch their show.

[@ianbrowning7437]

Used to watch it with my grand parents all the time....use to have a good laugh with my Grandpa when I`d randomly blurt out "BLAST!"

[@writerpatrick]

It was also a TV show.

[@MoonjumperReviews]

“The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” would be considerably more fun to watch than that thing was. So would “The Rockford Files.”

[@charlesjmouse]

Always excellent, thank you. For myself, I can't help but notice Hollyweird's seeming need to cast evil characters in the position of protagonist... not the occasional antihero, but one evil square peg after another inexpertly hammered in to the round hole of good. (a-hem) Now it's evil witches, not even of the 'Bewitched' type. Is it possible the denizens of Hollyweird have something in common with their protagonists?

[@richardlbowles]

Well, Chato, that's several hours of your life you'll never get back. At least you managed to get a video out of it.

[@RydarkVoyager]

Loved the "updated version of the Ghost and Mrs. Muir" crack at the end. Of course, it is gender swapped, which is Marvel's stock in trade.

[@joemadden4160]

While Paul was busy taking one for the team I was busy finishing off the Criterion Blu-Ray set of the Lone Wolf and Cub series. Everything a samurai at heart could want: Assassinations Blood (lots of) Gore Nudity (predominantly female, but they're POWERFUL females) Beautiful lensing and great music Fantastic action sequences Ogami Itto and his son, Daigoro Ah the 70's. 🙂

[@ianbrowning7437]

I salute you good Sir! I`m partial to Lady Snow Blood myself.

[@darktower0603]

Great choice!

[@joemadden4160]

@@ianbrowning7437 Created by Kazuo Koike, the man behind Lone Wolf and Cub.👍🏼 An excellent series as well on Criterion.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Not worthy of my time and money. I thank you for watching this so that we won't, Paul, but I hope your insured.

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

As long as they have the money to keep on pumping out this sewage, it's going to keep on being pumped.

[@danicaza420]

Always love your content Chato, keep up the good work.

[@frankowalker4662]

Chato, I suggest you watch Tulsa King, a good old fashioned style TV show.

[@Crimson_Hawk_01]

It’s so weird that in 2024 I find myself watching things that were made 10 plus years ago. I am working my way through SG-1 now. Stargate is so well written.

[@TheJohn8765]

I'm going out to some screenings of Kurosawa's movies in a week or so with friends. His stuff is *far* superior to most modern crap but I do recommend looking up foreign tv and movies. They don't have the same pressure to be "politically correct" as Hollywood and thus still make great stuff. Honestly, I think the whole "diversity first and foremost" attitude is poisonous to creativity. (I'm left of centre, btw, but woke bs is out of hand)

[@markiangooley]

The Rockford Files could have been about files (nail files, wood files, whatever files) manufactured in Rockford, Illinois. Probably would have been uninteresting, if so…

[@CallMeChato]

true

[@davidgantenbein9362]

It doesn’t need to be oil companies to do a full on Dallas type show about the money elite; so done right, a series about a dynasty in the file industry could rock ;)

[@shirleydanby4123]

Oh i love the Ghost and Mrs Muir. Rex Harrison..... Meow 😉.

[@greenarrow219]

The old story plan, beginning middle end or the heros journey. Take the old greek story's from 2000+ years ago, they endure because they are well written.

[@popeyeandthejeep7459]

CHATO my man speak it like it is. Total respect dude.

[@stephenschroeder6567]

Now, "Billy and His Bitches" would have been a much better title. 🙂 Have you seen the announcement for the next Godzilla movie? There's something to look forward to beyond the end of these Marvel failures. Thank you, Sir! Have a great week!

[@CallMeChato]

Looking forward to it. Thanks.

[@ARLimon74]

I love Godzilla!

[@davidgantenbein9362]

Damn, would have checked out a series with that title (though I hope someone with the guts to do such a title would have written a better sitcom).

[@davidgantenbein9362]

Looking forward to the next Toho Godzilla, kind of lost interest in the American Godzilla. But a new movie from the Godzilla Minus One director is definitely something to be hyped for imo.

[@shauni1987]

Is this satire? This show was the best thing since Loki. It kept getting better and episode 7 was masterpiece with universal acclaim

[@MisterRubbertoe]

Generally agree with everything you say, but for whatever reason - I really loved this short series. Went in without any real expectations, enjoyed it “enough” thru the last two episodes, then really enjoyed the “twist” and being able to go back thru and watch it again and see all the places/ways that Agatha reacted or said things which absolutely indicated the twist before a lot of us realized it. ☺️ I dunno man, honestly, there was some pretty clever writing / acting involved, unlike a lot of other recent series. 🤷🏻‍♂️😏👍🏻

[@MisterRubbertoe]

Your first complaint about the show being named Agatha All Along while it was an ensemble cast… again, it plays to the story - all of the witches that were believed to have died on the witches road throughout the centuries, it turns out (as you know) that Agatha made up the song and was killing them all thru the years, or … all along. And it’s funny, your complaint was that every marvel thing has to be connected to other marvel things - meanwhile most of the complaints I saw when this show started was that “it’s not even connected to anything in the MCU, why should we care?” 😏 I dunno… it happens now and then, where I feel like all the early crapping on a show might have scared away some of the people who would have enjoyed it. I was almost one of those people 😅

[@CallMeChato]

@@MisterRubbertoe Thanks. I’m just not a fan of mystery box shows.

[@OldMan_PJ]

WandaVision started out great but rushed to escape what made it great, the homage to sitcoms of decades past.

[@emmajade9507]

Thank you Chanto for surviving another horrible Disney Marvel Show. I couldn’t make it past episode 2, really hoping at this point Disney doesn’t screw up the new Dare Devil series , but who knows?

[@gavinhaley4399]

You know they will.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

Hmmm … I‘m all for him being called Chanto instead of Chato, when the subject at hand is witches aka magic. 😅

[@johndurham6172]

It seemed to have potential but I have to think like so many other shows it suffered from too many writers and none of them knew what the others were doing.

[@brucebezold2714]

There's an old saying Too many chefs spoil the broth. Too many writers kill the plot.

[@johndurham6172]

​@@brucebezold2714 💯

[@Wdavidmetzger]

If aubrey plaza is death, take me now lord! Take me now! Too bad she wasn't the motivation for thanos like in the comics.

[@acemanington]

I watched all of this show, I don't know why. I wasn't expecting it to be good and it wasn't. Not once did I give a shite about any of the characters. I remember a time I didn't want the MCU to end.

[@gonzotown9438]

I thought it was ok. Not great, but not painful to watch. It’s weird though how the media is treating it as a big hit. It may have actually done ok financially, since it was apparently much cheaper.

[@laraq07]

I enjoyed it myself. Wouldn't watch a 2nd season if they made it but I thought the ending was satisfying. Didn't really need ep #9.

[@TheJohn8765]

Just going by the media, you'd be forgiven for thinking all these D+ shows are massive hits. Since they aren't, for the most part, lets you know Disney is spending a LOT of money to get favourable press.

[@josephfisher426]

@@TheJohn8765 Maybe they ARE hits in the media household demographic.

[@alanpennie8013]

​@@laraq07. It did feel a little stretched out. I think six episodes would have been enough.

[@irekaias]

Ghost in the sHE'LL

[@HarvestStore]

Great video.

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

Good evening from the bottom side of the world!

[@CallMeChato]

I use the term, underside.

[@justinbentley567]

Sorry you had to watch this. Your observation that Agatha should be the focus of her own show (not Billy) makes me think maybe they’re going to claim they were trying to own the CHUDS by usurping the main character of a show - but they think the chuds won’t care this time because it’s a womyn and then they’ll leap out of the hiding places and say “caught you not complaining about usurping the main character!” Or maybe it’s just that everyone at Marvel thinks the titular character must be torn down, so that’s all every project is now?

[@davidgantenbein9362]

Me (in a very disinterested and boring voice): „Oh woe is me as I, the evil chud of the north, got owned so terribly by Disney. How can I ever recover from this? … anyway, let’s watch something that’s actually interesting.“

[@gonzotown9438]

Could you use the rules of a miniseries?

[@CallMeChato]

They are not to dissimilar. What do you mean?

[@chrisw6164]

Only if Richard Chamberlain is involved.

[@ChaoticYak1]

@@chrisw6164 Or Pierce Brosnan. He was in a few back in the 80s when miniseries were good.

[@gonzotown9438]

@@CallMeChato You seemed to be comparing these streaming shows to a regular series, where I think they are much more comparable to a miniseries.

[@jimvanlieshout7657]

During watching this, did I see your hair turn green?!? Way to lean into the witch theme. What a pro!!!

[@robertpearson8798]

I tend to agree with you about the “who asked for this?” camp. On the other hand though I’m reminded of a Seinfeld quote that “sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason”.

[@patriciabenjamin7056]

My love of the MCU died with Sharon in episode 3.

[@doughauck57]

Hey! I *liked* The Ghost and Mrs. Muir!

[@BriannaMoore-h7l]

Why aren't you viral yet?!

[@doberski6855]

He went viral along time ago, in a galaxy far,far, away! Check out the comedy troop 'The Frantics'!

[@Dracounguis]

Why does Marvel think all these superhero names are just titles they can pass down to others? I don't know, maybe it works in comic books? 🤷 But for a movie/TV audience it will not.

[@invisibleshuffle]

The 'Young Avengers' team they are aiming at premiered in 2005, it was really neat and showcased a lot of young heroes that were mostly from preceding books with actual connections to their namesakes or inspirations. Even the newer ones were folded into ongoing stories rather nicely. Like Kate Bishop started using Hawkeye because he was "dead" at the time, but she and Clint formed a cool reluctant mentor/mentee relationship (then she became the unasked for focus in the 'Hawkeye' book and girl-bossed her way into the sun). That initial fun iteration was pretty neat, but the premise was quickly abandoned, the team disassembled, and several reboots and number ones with diminishing returns, as what was initially a team of young legacy characters devolved into "Drama Teen Powers Group". As you do. To that, there is no way they can cobble together a good team out of the facsimiles of the characters they've vomited forth in the MCU. Does anyone want to cheer on Cassie Lang as Stature after "Quantumania"? Will you remember that Isaiah Bradley's grandson briefly appeared in 'Cap-Falcon and the Winter Soldier'? He's supposed to be 'Patriot', who originally claimed his powers were passed down from Grandad (skipping his poor, unremarkable father), but it turned out he was shooting MGH (Mutant Growth Hormone) and was a damn dirty liar. I personally can wait to see where the hell they ass-pull Hulkling from. See, he's supposed to be a Skrull prince and the son of the Kree Captain Marvel (who was Annette Bening in the MCU if you recall) bastard hybrid. With how they've mangled the Skrull and Kree races I don't see it working. My bet is that they grab Skaar (you don't even know who that is, do you?) and shove him in the role since he's there at the end of 'She-Hulk' like some weird terrible haircut fever dream. 'Speed' was in "WandaVision" and "Dr. Strange: M.o.M. but he's still technically imaginary, sorta. We'll need a whole pointless mystery box show to retrieve him, right? Nah, I'm sure his "brother" will snap his fingers and he'll now exist. That leaves who? Ah. Iron Lad. Hold on to your butts; he's the Iron Man suit-looking teenager that is the future grandson of the Fantastic Four's Sue and Reed Richards, who grows up to be Kang the Conqueror (heh, where is Johnathan Majors at again?) but travels back in time to not become the seventeen different villains that are all the same guy in different phases of his long life and career in villainy. How in the blue hell are they gonna... oh wait, yeah, Ironheart.

[@ttrev007]

i think your green light system relies on a vetting system that would have removed idiots from ever getting as far as the green light. i think many of the shows you green lit would have been ok if they had ben run by competent people.

[@DanSmith-x2p]

Good stuff

[@SGrey-fk3zf]

Ghost and Mrs.Muir reference. 😀

[@mblaydoe]

Are they streaming masterpieces or steaming masterpieces?

[@DocCivil]

Am I supposed to read that as Ugh-atha or You-gatha? Thanks for the Ghost and Mrs. Muir call-out. I really liked that show (or was that "Nanny and the Professor?")

[@CallMeChato]

Ug.

[@Evil_Spotify_Metal-and-Rock]

Disney Marvel hasn't made a single show or movie under Kevin Feige, where the audience has cheered for the main character

[@Wien1938]

It's definitely an ideological slant.

[@LazySleestack]

I think the problem is the "one of each" disease. Because diversity is the primary motivator any show can't have a single main character, because then they could not have a hero for each demographic. So now they are all a "team of equals" or even worse, a "hero" saddled with a group of of sidekicks and hangers-on who each have to have their time to shine.

[@TheJohn8765]

Ugh. It's like an ensemble cast setup, but cancerous. Its metastisis inevitably kills the show by leaching each other's talent.

[@jkatkat7950]

McMillan & Wife.....was about....McMillan....and his wife.....

[@nigelgreen9369]

Wow, I forgot about The Ghost and Mrs Muir. What was it 1970? I forgot Rex Harrison starred in the original film.

[@davidstair9657]

Reminds me of a sort of “Seeing Things” theme… though most things remind me of “Seeing Things”.

[@CallMeChato]

Louis del Grande.

[@AscendantStoic]

Agatha: Doesn't Matter At All XD

[@anonygent]

Not sure why you expected anything different. Someone who has created something good can turn around and create something bad (M. Night Shyamalan, e.g.), but it's extremely rare for someone who has been turning out crap for years to suddenly turn out something good. The only exceptions to the stream of diarrhea coming out of Disney can be attributed to the intervention of outside influences, like Ryan Reynolds on Wolverine and Deadpool. Nothing is going to change until Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy get shitcanned.

[@CallMeChato]

I’m an optimist

[@anonygent]

@CallMeChato As a lifelong pessimist, I'm willing to grant that optimism is a better way to live, but I save a lot of time not watching stuff I suspect is going to be bad. (Rule of thumb for books: if the author's name on the cover is bigger than the title, skip it.)

[@richardbell7678]

I remember watching reruns of "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", as a child and only saw it as entertainment. Recently, the pilot episode of the series showed up among my KZbin recommendations, so I watched it. I would have to re-watch more episodes to confirm this, but finally watching it as an adult, it struck me that the show might have been a vehicle to explore male sexist attitudes, without having to vilify the sexist character, the ghost. The ghost's attitudes are a product of when he was alive and the pilot ends with the ghost pondering what might have happened if Mrs, Muir was born in his time or he in hers.

[@Centurion-st5pe]

So they did a bait and switch? Lol guess they just can’t help themselves.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

Hmmm … imo it would be possible to do a show about the evil witch Agatha, where the main „trial of the week“ is her having an evil plan to restore her power and i.e. Billy being the one to always secretly preventing her success. In that way both of them would be leads, would have a funny basic interaction and Agatha being an evil witch would work. … but it could be a tiny bit too much like Pinky & the Brain, tbh.

[@CallMeChato]

Interesting

[@TheJohn8765]

I just got back from dinner with a friend who also was a movie/tv producer and his opinions on most of these shows are the same as yours. I don't get why these show runners think they can just reinvent the wheel and expect people to go along with it. Classic narrative structures exist because they work. Outside of weird surrealism or avant-garde 60's french nonsense, there is a reason our tales are structured the same from ancient fairytales and legends, to Shakespeare, to Citizen Kane. It works.

[@williamwilson5127]

The Rockford Files: The Continuing Adventures of Angel!

[@biffstrong1079]

Thanks

[@RevanR]

Finally it ends

[@xgonne]

Lead characters must lead; So, Andor failed on that one. The lead character must be called in to solve a problem or was the cause of the problem; Did Andor succeed on that one? Arguably, Andor didn't need to figure out who the good guy was or who the bad guy was because they were dealing with certain shades of grey, but they still did fail at doing this with their titular character.

[@CallMeChato]

@@xgonne His ambiguity made his character boring. The security guy was cool.

[@johngorno4552]

@@CallMeChato @xgonne You can't help but root for the long-suffering security schmuck to at least score with the blonde dame, as improbable as it seems... Andor *did* lead the rebellion at the prison -- I assume that the series will depict his involuntary (de)evolution from decent but passive/boring non-entity to the unhesitating, cold-blooded killer he is at the start of "Rogue One." The Empire ruined a lot of lives.

[@2Goood]

The 1st mcu bait and switch with female lead for a male (even tho a gay) lead?

[@michaelfox1432]

Heu! I liked The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

[@dendostar5436]

My wife liked the show, so I’m just thumbs up and leaving.👍

[@whollymindless]

Strange she liked it. She has such high standards in a spouse!

[@dendostar5436]

@ Eh.

[@CallMeChato]

That's good to hear. I wished it was a better experience for me. Great cast.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

Talk to your family members. Make them see the idiocy for what it is. Challenge them. Make them convince YOU that it ISNT painful. Idiocy must be challenged, lest it thrive.

[@dendostar5436]

@@stillcantbesilencedevennow Um…no.

[@norbertzillatron3456]

Is it their Marvels or their Marbles they lost?

[@user-qn2fk4xy6w]

To them, there is not good or evil, only Chaos.

[@billvallely4835]

"Agatha All Along" had a budget literally one eighth of "Secret Invasion". The series is nothing short of brilliant. It was surprising up until the end.

[@shaoronmd]

I'm just here to see/hear how bad the show crashed

[@vernonhampton5863]

...I can imagine, maybe 15 years from now, that they remake this show and call it Billy and his Old Bitches. But this time, Billy is a teenaged pimp and recruits all of these women for down the Players' Road. Can you dig it?

[@kurtjk01]

Have to have an episode where Crenshaw Pete teaches him all about hot wire coat hangers . . .

[@strikerfett6624]

I don't even think im mad that movies keep making good dudes bad and villains anti heros or heros. Its just they will not make up there mind once they switch sides like they will have a good deed scene but still be bad. I think beserk really does good/bad switches incredibly well the character has a valid reason for switching teams they have build up to it not immediately "im bad now" kinda thing. Or the complete opposite where a pompus religious prick sees her own hypocrisy and slowly makes things right not by hateing herself but by making the right choices in the future and becoming a better person.

[@StreetPreacherr]

The whole show just felt pointless. Billy basically killed three people, and now we're supposed to consider him the 'good guy'? And the Salem Seven' ended up being a BIG NOTHING! They're entire role was to scare them into the basement door, and then prompted a 1 minute Broom Ride, because? And then they were killed off unceremoniously, just to get rid of I guess? At least taking their shoes off ended up having a purpose, to show that they'd just walked in a circle...

[@federerlkonig330]

To be fair, Billy himself points out that he felt responsible for their deaths and Agatha just shows her shallowness by correcting him and saying she would have killed all of them if not for him. The whole point of Agatha and Billy teaming up is that both are dangerous friends who bring misfortune to those around them. Agatha as a ghost now cannot harm anyone, while Billy chooses Agatha as a partner because he won't risk killing her and he feels she is the only one cruel enough to be with him. But yeah, the salem seven were wasted.

[@writerpatrick]

@@federerlkonig330 Also consider that if Billy was able to body swap then Agatha might also be able to do it as well.

[@LornRoberts]

Maybe the new Matlock can sneak in Jim Rockford. Matock with J-turns.

[@scottgun00]

"...a cautious green light..." So, a yellow? 😀

[@MrBenfranz]

For a great show to consider, I recommend The Penguin. Great Gangster Television.

[@grokeffer6226]

👍👍👍 I'm glad that I didn't have to sit through it.

[@markiangooley]

Still want an Agnatha movie or show, about lampreys or hagfish or both. Lampreys used to be considered a delicacy, so a show about eating them would also be good, potentially. And a king and maybe also a pope have died supposedly from overeating them: “In late November 1135 Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror, was staying at a hunting lodge at Lyons-la-Foreˆt in Normandy. At around sixty-eight years of age, he was still in sufficiently good health to be planning to go hunting on the following day when, contrary to his doctor’s orders it was said, he dined on lampreys and became ill during the night. Within a few short days he was dead…”

[@CallMeChato]

This wins the wackiest comment award.

[@lab483]

@@CallMeChato who doesn't like a good lamprey story

[@infinitygirlak]

Agatha got the Mando Season 3 / Obi-Wan treatment: being relegated to a secondary character in her own show. Equality!

[@bjc9520]

Agatha Harkness was an embodiment of evil. She wasn’t just a typical villain; she had a literal romance with Death itself. When her son Nicholas was marked as an abomination by her lover, Death, Agatha struck a deal: as long as she kept spilling blood, she could spend more time with him. To honour this pact, she killed other witches indiscriminately for years. Unlike his mother, Nicholas constantly questioned the need for these killings. When Death eventually claims Nicholas, the loss shatters Agatha’s relationship with her and erases any last trace of Agatha's empathy. From that point forward, her motives darken. She begins killing purely for power, luring others with false promises of a “Witches Road.” Over centuries, she amasses an immense body count, showing no remorse. In the present, Agatha manipulates a new coven with the intent of killing them. When Billy accidentally projects the Witches Road, she pretends to go along with it. Along the journey, two witches and an innocent bystander die. Her response to the latter? A heartless, "Who?" In the end, however, Agatha sacrifices herself to save Billy, whose empathy reminds her of her son. Ashamed of the monster she became, she chooses to remain a ghost, unable to face Nicholas. Series Overview: I thought the first five episodes were not good and very slow. Things really pick up in episodes 6-8 as we see connections unfold. Episode 9, however, feels muddled; they dropped the ball on the resolution.

[@บัวสีโรเจอร์-ศ9ฝ]

Arrgh, every time something from my past gets mentioned - The Rockford Files - I go completely off track and spend the rest of the day watching re-runs of it. Stop tormenting us. . . . .

[@NotTomS]

So Chato, what percentage of DPvsW goodwill did Agatha destroy... What percentage remains for CA4 to obliterate?

[@darthlaurel]

Calling it "Ghey Characters All Day Long" wasn't as catchy, and they don't want to tip their hands too much. They think they are subtle.

[@BasedLiz]

I'm sorry, but that comparison is offensive to The Ghost and Mrs Muir. That movie was amazing with two of the best male leads in history! (Great reference regardless.) 😊

[@CallMeChato]

No one else on KZbin would have made that reference damn it.

[@shanewoolsey940]

Commenting for the 'algorithm' I don't watch TV but I love 'Boot to the head'

[@beefgoat80]

My wife is interested in the Agatha show, despite having been supremely disappointed by Wandavision and MoM. I haven't told her anything about the show. It's probably best she sees what Marvel has become for herself.

[@Laffinatu]

If you ever offer a class on how to write and structure shows and movies that will get the attention of producers, I’ll take it.

[@_XR40_]

On the other hand, Ghost and Mrs Muir was entertaining....

[@ekij133]

Streaming is different from broadcast television in that you don't want to waste a prime broadcast slot on a dud show. But if you've already _paid_ for the show there is only a little hosting cost (and some self respect) to be saved by cancelling it mid-season on a streaming service.

[@MorgDragon]

yup. pretty much. the show kept vasilating between Ugatha redeeming herself and being 'evil'. i thought they were going to go on a redemption arc. we were meant to see that she was not wholly evil and things drove her down the path she took. For example, when she stole the fire witch's powers she said it was on accident that should not control it. then she let that other witch unbind herself. and she was quietly looking out for Billy. so when we saw her big flashback, i was waiting for the reason she was stealing witch's powers. She didn't make a deal with death. there was nothing about why she had to do it. she didn't seem to get stronger, or weaker if she did not. the kid didn't get sicker without the magic stealing schtick or better after Ugatha stole the witch's powers. i seriously was waiting for the revelation right up until Death took her kid away after he convinced his mom not to kill the coven. it seeeeeemed like the two events were tied together, but how should i know. the show never told me! then at the very very end, Billy let Ugatha steal some of his power, which she did. so Good Ugatha? but then let Death take Billy. Bad Ugatha? oh wait she turns around and kisses Death (or was that visa versa and Rio gave her the Kiss of Death - metaphor.) i thought THAT was going to be the moment when SOMETHING happened and Ugatha and Billy win over Death and Billy continues Ugatha's redemption. but nope. just ends like you said. so disappointing.

[@CallMeChato]

Good summary

[@ChrisLoehrChrisLoehr]

James Garner is going to haunt you for dragging Rockford Files into this!

[@frankowalker4662]

OI ! SPOILERS. Oh, wait. I don't care. Carry on.

[@philjones3824]

If you want to lose money, don't hire Max Bialystok, hire these idiots.